0 weak and cowardly (= not brave); frightened of taking risks: --
There are very few causes of war which cannot be made by the pusillanimous and the specious to appear trivial.
The hypothesis is that the trustees are pusillanimous, weak-kneed, incompetent and mean spirited because they do not really have the public interest at heart.
I wish to call attention to the pusillanimous and pestiferous poltroonery of a policy which actually releases men who have committed those crimes.
Pusillanimous advice of that sort does little credit to those who give it.
Having budged, we are called "pusillanimous people who run away".
I regard that as a pusillanimous response from our forces of law and order.
One problem is that the principals of universities are far too pusillanimous.
I regard that as a pusillanimous point of view and one which ignores the realities of the world.
